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The Wild Goose Chase
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The Wild Goose Chase

By G. K. Chesterton (1892)

Our Word of the Week has been seek, so today I’ve got for you a short story by the master of the new fairy-tale, G. K. Chesterton. It’s about a little boy who goes out in search of the Wild Goose, and may God bless him for it!

My text comes from Volume 14 of G. K. Chesterton: Collected Works, by Ignatius Press. This volume contains short stories, fairy tales, mysteries, juvenilia, and unfinished works.

Wild Goose in Flight, illustration. Winslow Homer. Public Domain.

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